2008 Motor City Bowl

August 2023 March 2026 February 2024 2008 Motor City Bowl MotorCityBowlLogo.png 2008 Florida Atlantic Owls Florida Atlantic University Central Michigan Chippewas Central Michigan University 6–6 Sun Belt 8–4 MAC Howard Schnellenberger Butch Jones 7 3 7 7 0 10 3 8 December 26 Ford Field Detroit, Michigan QB Rusty Smith, FAU CMU by 7 Tom Walker (Big 12) 41,399 750,000http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=494772 SportingNews.com - Your expert source for NCAA Football stats, scores, standings, and blogs from NCAA Football columnists 2011-09-01 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20081219075027/http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=494772 2008-12-19 ESPN List of announcers of major college bowl games Todd Harris, Ray Bentley 2.1 2009 The 2008 Motor City Bowl was a National Collegiate Athletic Association bowl game in which the Florida Atlantic Owls defeated the Central Michigan Chippewas 24–21. It was played on December 26, 2008, at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan and aired on ESPN. The underdog FAU team from the Sun Belt Conference was led by game Most Valuable Player Rusty Smith. CMU had finished in third place in the West Division of the Mid-American Conference. The game was the 12th installment of the Motor City Bowl and was attended by 41,399 people, the fourth-lowest all time for the Motor City Bowl.December 2011 Scoring summary Scoring play Score 1st QuarterFAU – DiIvory Edgecomb 1-yard TD run (Ross Gornall kick), 7:37FAU 7–0 2nd QuarterCMU – Kito Poblah 5-yard TD pass from Dan LeFevour (Andrew Aguila kick), 13:30Tie 7–7CMU – Aguila 35-yard FG, 9:30CMU 10–7FAU – Gornall 36-yard FG, :47Tie 10–10 3rd QuarterFAU – Chris Bonner 52-yard TD pass from Rusty Smith (Gornall kick), 7:57FAU 17–10CMU – Aguila 33-yard FG, 4:59FAU 17–13 4th QuarterFAU – Cortez Gent 18-yard TD pass from Smith (Gornall kick), 10:17FAU 24–13CMU – Antonio Brown 15-yard TD pass from LeFevour (Poblah pass from LeFevour), 3:09FAU 24–21 References Motor City Bowl Category:Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Category:Florida Atlantic Owls football bowl games Category:Central Michigan Chippewas football bowl games Category:December 2008 sports events in the United States Category:2008 in sports in Michigan Category:2008 in Detroit